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	health Daily update ⋅ September 29, 2020
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	CNN How to stay safe this fall while a pandemic rages CNN (CNN) Summer's over, but the pandemic persists. The days are getting shorter and colder. And the next few months could get ugly where Covid-19 is concerned. Fall was always going to be a difficult period of the pandemic. The season brings with it brisker ... Flag as irrelevant
	CBS News Three scientists give their best advice on how to protect yourself from COVID-19 CBS News Over the past several months, there has been controversy over the way SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, travels from an infected person to others. While official guidance has often been unclear, some aerosol scientists and public health experts ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Infected by a Virus, a Killer Fungus Turns Into a Friend The New York Times When crops have nightmares, they dream of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. The fungus, known by stomach-turning names such as "white mold" and "watery soft rot," manifests as a cottony, cream-colored fuzz that attaches to stems, where it gouges wound-like ... Flag as irrelevant
	NPR When Young People Get COVID-19, Infections Soon Rise Among Older Adults NPR Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, older adults were more likely to get infected, but when researchers analyzed cases from June to August, they found that people in their 20s accounted for the largest share of confirmed cases compared to other age groups. And ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times A Potential Downside of Intermittent Fasting The New York Times Intermittent fasting is a trendy weight loss strategy. But a new study found that a popular form of intermittent fasting called time-restricted eating produced minimal weight loss and one potential downside: muscle loss. The new research, published in JAMA ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report COVID Antibodies Found in Less Than 10% of Americans U.S. News & World Report By Robin Foster and E.J. Mundell HealthDay Reporters. (HealthDay). MONDAY, Sept. 28, 2020 (Healthday News) -- Less than 10 percent of Americans have antibodies to COVID-19 in their systems, a new U.S. study finds. The percentages varied by region ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Covid-19: Blaenau Gwent is hardest-hit area in UK BBC News Blaenau Gwent has the highest and fastest rising case rate for Covid-19 infection in the UK. A case rate of 304.9 positive results per 100,000 in the week to 25 September was reported by Public Health Wales. Latest BBC analysis has Merthyr Tydfil ranked ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Brain-eating amoeba in city's water supply kills 6-year-old, leads Texas to declare a disaster Washington Post Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration in Brazoria County on Sunday after the discovery in the local water supply system of an amoeba that can cause a rare and deadly infection of the brain. Support our journalism. Subscribe today. "The state ... Flag as irrelevant
	WebMD Women Get Worse Care for Heart Attack WebMD By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Young women who suffer a particularly deadly condition after a heart attack are 11% more likely to die from it than men, a new study finds. Not only that, women aged 18 ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay Pandemic Has More Americans Turning to Booze HealthDay By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Is the coronavirus pandemic driving people to drink? Yes, a new U.S. survey shows, and the greatest spike in alcohol use is being seen in women. Overall, there was a 14% ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Women Get Worse Care for Heart Attack U.S. News & World Report By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Young women who suffer a particularly deadly condition after a heart attack are 11% more likely to die from it than men, a new study finds. Not only that ... Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today Code Blue for COVID-19 Patients: No Survivors MedPage Today Survival chances were bleak among COVID-19 patients who sustained in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA), U.S. data showed. After a median 8 minutes of CPR on 54 such patients, 53.7% had return of spontaneous circulation, according to Corey Mayer, DO, ... Flag as irrelevant
	Patch.com Boulder County Updates Gatherings Order Patch.com BOULDER, CO — Boulder County announced updates Monday for its public health order that prohibits 18 to 22-year-olds from gathering in Boulder. The amendments, which were made after community feedback, aim to "ensure young adults feel safe in the ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report Diabetes During Pregnancy Could Raise Lifelong Heart Risks for Children U.S. News & World Report By Cara Roberts Murez HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, Sept. 28, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The foundation for early heart disease might begin not during childhood or in the years that follow, but in the womb. Researchers studying nearly 30 ... Flag as irrelevant
	Patch.com Rutgers Experts Explore Concerns About COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Patch.com NEWARK, NJ — As researchers race to battle the coronavirus, many people have been wrestling with ethical questions about trying new treatments on human patients. Now, a pair of medical experts from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (RNJMS) and the ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNBC Medical historian compares the coronavirus to the 1918 flu pandemic: Both were highly political CNBC The 1918 virus was also a "novel" virus, meaning it was brand new. Like Covid-19, no one had immunity to it, and it was highly infectious, spreading through respiratory droplets that pass when an infected person coughed or sneezed. Several cities ... Flag as irrelevant
	Detroit Free Press Most Parents Unaware Flu Vaccine More Important This Year Medscape Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it's more important than ever to get an influenza vaccine this year, yet only 1 in 3 parents know this, a survey ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Herd immunity could protect us from COVID-19—in theory. Infectious disease experts explain Medical Xpress As the United States surpassed 200,000 coronavirus deaths recently, many are asking one simple question: When will it end? Politicians and public health experts have touted herd immunity as one way to stop COVID-19 without a vaccine. The scientific ... Flag as irrelevant
	USA TODAY 1 in 3 parents say they won't vaccinate their kids against flu this year, poll finds USA TODAY Public health experts fear winter will bring the seasonal flu on top of the coronavirus pandemic, and many parents, at least one survey suggests, aren't going to protect their children from it. One in three parents say they won't get their children flu shots this year ... Flag as irrelevant
	HealthDay COVID-19 Patients Rarely Survive Cardiac Arrest: Study HealthDay By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, Sept. 28, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Folks whose hearts stop due to a severe case of COVID-19 are very unlikely to leave the hospital alive, a new study shows. Out of 54 patients at a Michigan hospital ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress About 14% of cerebral palsy cases may be tied to brain wiring genes Medical Xpress In an article published in Nature Genetics, researchers confirm that about 14% of all cases of cerebral palsy, a disabling brain disorder for which there are no cures, may be linked to a patient's genes and suggest that many of those genes control how brain ... Flag as irrelevant
	CIDRAP Less than 10% of US population has COVID-19 antibodies, data show CIDRAP Less than 10% of a nationally representative sample of US dialysis patients had antibodies against COVID-19, showing that herd immunity will remain out of reach for quite some time, according to a study published late last week in The Lancet. Researchers ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Conversation quickly spreads droplets inside buildings: study Medical Xpress With implications for the transmission of diseases like COVID-19, researchers have found that ordinary conversation creates a conical 'jet-like' airflow that quickly carries a spray of tiny droplets from a speaker's mouth across meters of an interior space. Flag as irrelevant
	Reuters Explainer: Why the coronavirus death rate still eludes scientists Reuters (Reuters) - Global deaths from COVID-19 have reached 1 million, but experts are still struggling to figure out a crucial metric in the pandemic: the fatality rate - the percentage of people infected with the pathogen who die. FILE PHOTO: Roberto Arias prepares ... Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today Chronic PPI Use Tied to Diabetes Risk MedPage Today Regular use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) was linked with modest duration-dependent risk for developing type 2 diabetes, researchers reported. In a prospective study of three large U.S. cohorts, and in over 2,127,471 person-years of follow-up, 10,105 ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Coronavirus: Middlesbrough seeks household mixing ban BBC News Middlesbrough Council is to ask the government to place a restriction on people from different households socialising inside homes. The move is in response to a rise in virus cases, with latest figures showing 122 per 100,000 of population. The council said it ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Atlantic Vaccine Chaos Is Looming The Atlantic Vaccine Chaos Is Looming. The COVID-19 vaccines furthest along in clinical trials are the fastest to make, but they are also the hardest to deploy. Sarah Zhang. September 28, 2020. Illustration of a syringe that has been tangled into a knot Getty / The Atlantic. Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today Introducing Wheat Early May Prevent Celiac Disease MedPage Today Very early introduction of high-dose gluten was associated with a lower prevalence of celiac disease at 3 years of age in a prespecified secondary analysis from the Enquiring About Tolerance (EAT) infant food allergy prevention trial. None of the infants in the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Stanford Medical Center Report Fewer than 1 in 10 Americans have antibodies to coronavirus, study finds Stanford Medical Center Report A new study has found that few Americans have antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, rendered here in an illustration. The virus causes COVID-19. Alissa Eckert and Dan Higgins/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Here. About 9% of people nationwide have ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Thousands of excess deaths from cardiovascular disease during the COVID-19 pandemic Medical Xpress There are three graphs that help explain this story. They show the location of excess daily deaths: at home, in care homes and in hospital from February 2020 through to the end of June. Lockdown began on 23 March. Excess deaths at home and in care ... Flag as irrelevant
	MedPage Today ECMO Survival Rate 'Reasonable' in COVID-19 MedPage Today Most patients who require extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for severe COVID-19 survive, according to an international registry. Estimated 90-day in-hospital mortality was 37.4%, and mortality among those who completed their hospitalization ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Genetic testing cost effective for newly diagnosed gastrointestinal stromal tumors Medical Xpress Because gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) are sensitive to the targeted small molecule therapy imatinib, oncologists tend to treat all patients with metastatic GIST with this drug. However, because this rare type of cancer is caused by different genetic ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Boston Globe Nantucket reports 19 new COVID-19 cases; Cluster connected to church gathering on island The Boston Globe Officials on Nantucket over the weekend reported 19 new COVID-19 cases on the island, including a church cluster, bringing its seven-day positive test rate Sunday to 4.3 percent. The town provided details in a statement posted Sunday to its official website. Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Heath care workers lacking personal protective equipment suffer from more anxiety and depression Medical Xpress While all workers across Canada and around the world are being affected by COVID-19, health-care workers as a group are most heavily feeling its impact. This is because of their pivotal role in the treatment of people infected with the virus and their high ... Flag as irrelevant
	Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News Metabolic Processes in Cancer Cells Studied via Pharmaco-Metabolomics Approach Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News One of the biggest challenges to the development of cancer therapies is the fact that there is no single kind of cancer. As a result, researchers are trying to learn more about how specific cancers function in order to create effective treatments for those types of ... Flag as irrelevant
	U.S. News & World Report COVID-19 Patients Rarely Survive Cardiac Arrest: Study U.S. News & World Report By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, Sept. 28, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Folks whose hearts stop due to a severe case of COVID-19 are very unlikely to leave the hospital alive, a new study shows. Out of 54 patients at a ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News The coronavirus has killed this many health care workers, according to country's largest nurses union Fox News More than 1,700 health care workers have died of COVID-19 and related complications — after many of them said they didn't have adequate personal protective equipment, according to the country's largest nurses union. The report released by National ... Flag as irrelevant
	Miami Herald COVID-19 was twice as contagious as experts thought when pandemic started, study says Miami Herald This article has Unlimited Access. For more coverage, sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter. To support our commitment to public service journalism: Subscribe Now. During the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization ... Flag as irrelevant
	Daily Mail The Lancet: Radiotherapy following prostate cancer surgery can safely be avoided for many men EurekAlert To better document the repercussions of climate change on regional water resources, researchers from around the world now have access to HYSETS, a database of hydrometric, meteorological and physiographic data created by a team at the École de ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Aggressive childhood cancer could be treated by combining DNA-damage-targeting drugs Medical Xpress An aggressive form of the childhood cancer neuroblastoma could be treatable with two cancer drugs currently used in the treatment of colon and ovarian cancer, a study led by researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, suggests. A team led by ... Flag as irrelevant
	Healio FDA approved opioids based on limited data, sometimes 'flawed' trial designs Healio The FDA has often approved new drug applications for opioids based on trials of inadequate length that included only patients who could tolerate the drugs, according to researchers. "Despite the scope of America's ongoing opioid epidemic, little is known ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Covid-19 outbreak at Bernard Matthews turkey plant in Holton BBC News Eighteen workers have tested positive for Covid-19 after an outbreak at a turkey processing plant. Public health officials were brought in to test about 100 members of staff at the Bernard Matthews site in Holton, near Halesworth, Suffolk. The firm said those ... Flag as irrelevant
	New York Daily News A third of American parents say they won't get kids flu shots despite coronavirus risks New York Daily News About a third of American parents say they have no intention of vaccinating their children against the flu despite recommendations from health officials, who have warned the seasonal virus could exacerbate the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The new ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress Dietary folate, magnesium, and dairy products may all help stave off bowel cancer Medical Xpress Folate, magnesium, and dairy products may all help stave off bowel cancer, but there's no evidence that garlic or onions, fish, tea or coffee protect against the disease, finds an overarching analysis of published pooled data analyses in the journal Gut. Flag as irrelevant
	CIDRAP Rapid tests headed for lower income countries, COVID-19 deaths near 1 million CIDRAP The World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners today announced a program to supply low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with 120 million rapid tests for SARS-CoV-2 over the next 6 months, as the global death toll from the virus closed in on 1 ... Flag as irrelevant
	Scientific American The American Public Still Trusts Scientists, Says a New Pew Survey Scientific American Public trust of the scientific community in the United States is as strong as ever, according to a new poll just released today by the Pew Research Center, confirming polling results dating back to the 1970s. Thirty-eight percent of those polled in Pew's survey in ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Police told not to download NHS Covid-19 app BBC News The National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) has confirmed officers are being told not to install the NHS Covid-19 app on their work smartphones. The app detects when users have been in proximity to someone with the virus. Some officers have also been told ... Flag as irrelevant
	Medical Xpress COVID-19 may deplete testosterone, helping to explain male patients' poorer prognosis Medical Xpress For the first time, data from a study with patients hospitalized due to COVID-19 suggest that the disease might deteriorate men's testosterone levels. Publishing their results in the peer-reviewed journal The Aging Male, experts from the University of Mersin and ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNET Best face masks to use for exercise in 2020 CNET If you're returning to a fitness center or gym to work out, you may be required to wear a face mask while you exercise. But you might also consider waiting -- Dr. Sandra Kesh, an infectious disease expert, recommends skipping exercise classes and workouts ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post WHO, partners roll out faster COVID tests for poorer nations Washington Post GENEVA — The World Health Organization announced Monday that it and leading partners have agreed to a plan to roll out 120 million rapid-diagnostic tests for the coronavirus to help lower- and middle-income countries make up ground in a testing gap ... Flag as irrelevant

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